The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Wrapping It up at the Lafayette
1974
(American, 1912–1988)
Framed: 123.3 x 93.4 x 6.7 cm (48 9/16 x 36 3/4 x 2 5/8 in.); Unframed: 121.9 x 91.5 cm (48 x 36 in.)
© Romare Bearden Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Location: not on view
Description
Coming of age in New York in the 1930s, Bearden was immersed in the cultural revolution of the Harlem Renaissance. His home was located across the street from Harlem’s Lafayette Theatre, a hub for musicians such as Duke Ellington and Earl Hines. Bearden sought a way to translate the elements of jazz into visual art and discovered that collage was the ideal medium for capturing the spontaneity and improvisation of the genre, thus creating a lively visual rhythm.- 1985(Cordier & Ekstrom, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1985-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Cleveland Museum of Art. Images of the Mind. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1987. Reproduced: [p. 31]Campbell, Mary Schmidt. An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2018. Reproduced: p. [9]; color plate section
- Main Gallery Rotation (Gallery 229): April 14, 2014 -The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art", no. 111, p. 122.The Art of Romare Bearden (1911-1988). National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (organizer) (September 14, 2003-January 4, 2004); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (February 7-May 16, 2004).National Gallery of Art (9/14/2003 - 1/4/2004) and San Francisco Musuem of Art (2/7/2004 - 5/16/2004): "The Art of Romare Bearden (1911-1988)" exh. cat. no. 71, p. 77."Memory and Metaphor: The Art of Romare Bearden: 1940 - 1987," Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, (May 30 - July 26, 1992), National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., (Oct. 2, 1992 - Jan. 3, 1993)."Riffs and Takes, Music in the Art of Romare Bearden," North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, (Jan. 23 - April 2, 1988).Images of the Mind. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 7-August 30, 1987)."Images of the Mind," CMA (July 7 - Aug. 23, 1987).The Year in Review for 1985. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 12-April 20, 1986).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1985.41